Steven D., Booman Tribune AlterNet: PEEK. July 21, 2008. Talks with Iran about its nuclear program fail. Which isn't a surprise, given that the U.S. "senior diplomatic official" didn't speak.
Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation. July 15, 2008. With the world suspicious of American motives in world crises, U.S. policy toward Sudan and Zimbabwe is raising hackles.
Terrence McNally, AlterNet. June 18, 2008. Author Nina Hachigian shows that some of the biggest threats to our security don't come from rival nations. They come from us.
Elizabeth A. Wood, MIT Center for International Studies. June 11, 2008. Russia's troubled history suggests that Medvedev will probably be more of a figurehead than a real president.
Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. March 18, 2008. Forbes' latest list of billionaires reveals a global concentration of wealth that has reached truly staggering proportions.
Adam Howard, AlterNet AlterNet: Video. February 12, 2008. While most Americans aren't paying attention, the US, France and Russia are selling nuclear technology to the highest bidders.
Conn Hallinan, Foreign Policy in Focus. January 30, 2008. The neocons' project to create a "benign" global empire is dead, a victim of their own hubris.
Manila Ryce, The Largest Minority AlterNet: PEEK. November 25, 2007. Manila Ryce: Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov was attacked by Moscow riot police during an anti-Kremlin rally of around 3,000 people.
Jill Filipovic, AlterNet: PEEK. September 13, 2007. Jill Filipovic: It's called National Conception Day, which isn't quite as catchy as my term: National Russians Fuck Like Cold, Pale Rabbits In Furry Hats Day.
Dilip Hiro, Tomdispatch.com. August 23, 2007. In almost every measure, the United States is past its zenith. A look at the challenges that are bringing the heyday to a halt.
Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. June 19, 2007. Jayne Lyn Stahl: It is Russia, not France or Germany, who now points to the U.S. as the rogue state that endangers global security with its placement of "low yield nuclear weapons" in Europe.
Mark Ames, Alexander Zaitchik, The eXile. June 2, 2007. By hyping the so-called first massive cyberstrike by a superpower on a tiny, defenseless neighbor, the Western media have played into a sleazy Estonian PR stunt, designed to deflect the world's attention from the country's mistreatment of its Russian-speaking minority.
Vanja Petrovic, AlterNet: PEEK. June 1, 2007. Vanja Petrovic: The recent White House-approved political attacks against the Kremlin are a game of smokes and mirrors.
Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. May 21, 2007. Katrina vanden Heuvel: The attempted eviction of the largest journalism association in Russia comes on the heels of several other actions aimed at curbing media independence and alternative views.
Scott Ritter, AlterNet. February 23, 2007. We’re all in trouble if Russia follows up on its threat to withdraw from the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty in reaction to America's attempt to construct missile defense bases in Eastern Europe.
Joshua Holland, AlterNet: PEEK. October 26, 2006. Joshua Holland: How one of the columnist's cookie-cutter kvetches looks to someone who actually knows something of his subject.